System for mitigating exposure associated with identified unmanaged devices in a network using solution data modelling

ABSTRACT

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for mitigating exposures associated with identified unmanaged devices in a network using solution data modelling. The system is typically configured for generating one or more solution data models comprising a plurality of asset systems and a plurality of users, storing the one or more solution data models in a model database, receiving an input from a user to identify unmanaged devices in a network, accessing a first solution data model associated with the network from the model database, identifying the unmanaged devices in the network based on the first solution data model, and displaying information associated with the unmanaged devices to the user.

FIELD

The present invention relates to mitigating exposures associated withidentified unmanaged devices in a network using solution data modelling.

BACKGROUND

Present conventional systems do not have the capability to identify allexisting relationships within an entity. Lack of sufficient informationassociated with one or more relationships within an entity makes itdifficult to identify unmanaged devices consuming confidential data. Assuch, there exists a need for a system to identify all existingrelationships within the entity and to identify all unmanaged deviceswithin the entity based on the identified relationships in order tomitigate the exposures associated with the unmanaged devices.

SUMMARY

The following presents a simplified summary of one or more embodimentsof the present invention, in order to provide a basic understanding ofsuch embodiments. This summary is not an extensive overview of allcontemplated embodiments, and is intended to neither identify key orcritical elements of all embodiments nor delineate the scope of any orall embodiments. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one ormore embodiments of the present invention in a simplified form as aprelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.

Embodiments of the present invention address the above needs and/orachieve other advantages by providing apparatuses (e.g., a system,computer program product and/or other devices) and methods formitigating exposures associated with identified unmanaged devices in anetwork. The invention generates one or more solution data modelscomprising a plurality of asset systems and a plurality of users,wherein each of the plurality of asset systems is associated with atleast one user of the plurality of users and wherein at least a first ofthe plurality of asset systems is associated with at least a second ofthe plurality of asset systems, stores the one or more solution datamodels in the model database, receives an input from a user to identifyunmanaged devices in a network, accesses a first solution data modelassociated with the network from the model database, identifies theunmanaged devices in the network based on the first solution data model,and displays information associated with the unmanaged devices to theuser.

In some embodiments, the invention generates the one or more solutiondata models by accessing one or more authentication systems, wherein theone or more authentication systems comprise authentication informationassociated with the plurality of asset systems and the plurality ofusers, extracting the authentication information associated with theplurality of asset systems and the plurality of users, accessing one ormore human resources systems, wherein the one or more human resourcessystems comprise human resources information associated with theplurality of users, extracting the human resources informationassociated with the plurality of users, accessing one or more assetmanagement systems, wherein the one or more asset management systemscomprise asset information associated with at least type and location ofthe plurality of asset systems, extracting the asset informationassociated with plurality of asset systems, identifying a first set ofrelationships between each of the plurality of asset systems based onthe extracted authentication information, identifying a second set ofrelationships between each of the plurality of users and each of theplurality of asset systems based on the extracted authenticationinformation, and formulating the one or more solution data models basedon the first set of relationships, the second set of relationships, theasset information, and the human resources information.

In some embodiments, the invention identifies the unmanaged devices inthe network based on one or more relationships in the first solutiondata model.

In some embodiments, the invention automatically mitigates exposuresassociated with the unmanaged devices.

In some embodiments, the invention automatically mitigates the exposuresassociated with the unmanaged devices by determining that the unmanageddevices do not have latest security patches and automatically installingthe latest security patches on the unmanaged devices.

In some embodiments, the invention automatically mitigates the exposuresassociated with the unmanaged devices by identifying that the unmanageddevices have access to confidential data feeds and disconnecting accessto the confidential data feeds.

In some embodiments, the invention automatically mitigates the exposuresassociated with the unmanaged devices by disconnecting the unmanageddevices from the network.

The features, functions, and advantages that have been discussed may beachieved independently in various embodiments of the present inventionor may be combined with yet other embodiments, further details of whichcan be seen with reference to the following description and drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Having thus described embodiments of the invention in general terms,reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, where:

FIG. 1 presents a block diagram illustrating the exposure mitigationsystem environment, in accordance with embodiments of the presentinvention.

FIG. 2 presents a block diagram illustrating authentication informationpresent in one or more authentication systems, in accordance withembodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 3 presents a block diagram illustrating asset information presentin one or more asset management systems, in accordance with embodimentsof the present invention.

FIG. 4 presents a block diagram illustrating human resources informationpresent in one or more human resources systems, in accordance withembodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 5 presents a block diagram illustrating a combined solution datamodel generated by a resource entity system, in accordance withembodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 6 presents a process flow illustrating generation of combinedsolution data model, in accordance with embodiments of the presentinvention.

FIG. 7 presents a process flow for identifying one or more unmanageddevices within a network, in accordance with embodiments of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION

Embodiments of the invention will now be described more fullyhereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which some,but not all, embodiments of the invention are shown. Indeed, theinvention may be embodied in many different forms and should not beconstrued as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, theseembodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicablelegal requirements. In the following description, for purposes ofexplanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to providea thorough understanding of one or more embodiments. It may be evident;however, that such embodiment(s) may be practiced without these specificdetails. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.

Systems, methods, and computer program products are herein disclosedthat provide for creating relationships between multiple asset systems,plurality of users, one or more applications, one or more logicalassets, and/or the like leveraging existing data sets in one or moresystems associated with a resource entity. Conventional systems utilizeauto discovery tools to create the above mentioned relationships.However, the conventional auto discovery tools identify relationshipsbetween multiple asset systems by crawling into multiple systems basedon a set of rules and accessing configuration files, or the like andcannot identify all existing relationships within an entity. Theconventional auto discovery tools cannot identify relationships betweenthe multiple asset systems and the one or more logical assets, one ormore applications, and the plurality of users associated with theentity. Additionally, the conventional auto discovery tools aredifficult to install, configure, and manage. The present systemleverages already existing data within HR systems, asset managementsystems, and authentication systems providing authentication for themultiple asset systems, plurality of users, one or more applications, orthe like to create combined solution data models comprisingrelationships between multiple asset systems, plurality of users, one ormore applications, one or more logical assets.

Present conventional system cannot properly identify unmanaged deviceswithin an entity. When a team with a group of users accessing a group ofasset systems or managing a group of applications is dissolved, thegroup of asset systems and the group of applications may remainunmanaged thereby constantly consuming confidential information. Thesystem of the present invention solves the problem by effectivelyidentifying unmanaged devices within a network using the generatedsolution data models.

In accordance with embodiments of the invention, the terms “resourceentity system” or “resource entity” may include any organization thatprocesses financial transactions including, but not limited to, banks,credit unions, savings and loan associations, card associations,settlement associations, investment companies, stock brokerages, assetmanagement firms, insurance companies and the like.

Many of the example embodiments and implementations described hereincontemplate interactions engaged in by a user with a computing deviceand/or one or more communication devices and/or secondary communicationdevices. A “user”, as referenced herein, may refer to an entity orindividual that has the ability and/or authorization to access and useone or more resources or portions of a resource. In some embodiments,the “user” or “plurality of users” may be one or more associates,employees, agents, contractors, sub-contractors, third-partyrepresentatives, customers, and/or the like. Furthermore, as usedherein, the term “asset systems” or “asset” may refer to mobile phones,computing devices, tablet computers, wearable devices, smart devicesand/or any portable electronic device capable of receiving and/orstoring data therein.

A “user interface” is any device or software that allows a user to inputinformation, such as commands or data, into a device, or that allows thedevice to output information to the user. For example, the userinterface include a graphical user interface (GUI) or an interface toinput computer-executable instructions that direct a processing deviceto carry out specific functions. The user interface typically employscertain input and output devices to input data received from a usersecond user or output data to a user. These input and output devices mayinclude a display, mouse, keyboard, button, touchpad, touch screen,microphone, speaker, LED, light, joystick, switch, buzzer, bell, and/orother user input/output device for communicating with one or more users.

A “system environment”, as used herein, may refer to any informationtechnology platform of an enterprise (e.g., a national or multi-nationalcorporation) and may include a multitude of servers, machines,mainframes, personal computers, network devices, front and back endsystems, database system and/or the like.

FIG. 1 illustrates a exposure mitigation system environment 100, inaccordance with embodiments of the invention. As illustrated in FIG. 1,one or more resource entity systems 10 are operatively coupled, via anetwork 3, to asset systems 21, authentication system 20, assetmanagement systems 30, and human resources (HR) systems 40. In this way,the plurality of users 4 (e.g., one or more associates, employees,agents, contractors, sub-contractors, third-party representatives,customers, or the like), through a user application 27 (e.g., webbrowser, resource entity application, authentication application, or thelike), may access the asset systems 21 and other resource entityapplications 17 (web application, exposure mitigation application, orthe like) of the asset systems 21. In some embodiments, the exposuremitigation application may be a part of an independent exposuremitigation system. In such an embodiment, the independent exposuremitigation system is maintained and operated by the resource entitysystems 10. The independent exposure mitigation system may comprise oneor more processing devices operatively coupled to the one or more memorydevices and configured to execute computer readable code stored in theone or more memory devices.

The network 3 may be a global area network (GAN), such as the Internet,a wide area network (WAN), a local area network (LAN), or any other typeof network or combination of networks. The network 3 may provide forwireline, wireless, or a combination of wireline and wirelesscommunication between systems, services, components, and/or devices onthe network 3.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, the resource entity systems 10 generallycomprise one or more communication components 12, one or more processingcomponents 14, and one or more memory components 16. The one or moreprocessing components 14 are operatively coupled to the one or morecommunication components 12 and the one or more memory components 16. Asused herein, the term “processing component” generally includescircuitry used for implementing the communication and/or logic functionsof a particular system. For example, a processing component 14 mayinclude a digital signal processor component, a microprocessorcomponent, and various analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analogconverters, and other support circuits and/or combinations of theforegoing. Control and signal processing functions of the system areallocated between these processing components according to theirrespective capabilities. The one or more processing components 14 mayinclude functionality to operate one or more software programs based oncomputer-readable instructions 18 thereof, which may be stored in theone or more memory components 16. The authentication systems 20, theasset management systems 30, the human resources systems 40 may comprisesimilar structure and components as of the resource entity system 10such as one or more communication components, one or more processingcomponents, and one or more memory components.

The one or more processing components 14 use the one or morecommunication components 12 to communicate with the network 3 and othercomponents on the network 3, such as, but not limited to, the componentsof the asset systems 21, the authentication systems 20, asset managementsystems 30, HR systems 40, or other systems. As such, the one or morecommunication components 12 generally comprise a wireless transceiver,modem, server, electrical connection, electrical circuit, or othercomponent for communicating with other components on the network 3. Theone or more communication components 12 may further include an interfacethat accepts one or more network interface cards, ports for connectionof network components, Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors and thelike.

As further illustrated in FIG. 1, the resource entity systems 10comprise computer-readable instructions 18 stored in the memorycomponent 16, which in one embodiment includes the computer-readableinstructions 18 of the resource entity application 17 (e.g., websiteapplication, exposure mitigation application, or the like). In someembodiments, the one or more memory components 16 include one or moredata stores 19 for storing data related to the resource entity systems10, including, but not limited to, data created, accessed, and/or usedby the resource entity application 17. In embodiments of the presentinvention, the one or more data stores store the information extractedfrom the authentication systems 20, asset management systems 30, HRmanagement systems 40, and/or the like. In some embodiments, informationassociated with the one or more assets, one or more applications andlogical assets, the plurality of users is gathered by the resourceentity applications 17 by communicating with other resource entitysystems such as HR systems 40, asset management systems 30,authentication systems 40, and/or other systems associated with theresource entity. Additionally, the resource entity systems 10 comprisean artificial intelligence engine stored in the memory component 16 togenerate one or more combined solution data models, in accordance withembodiments of the present invention. In embodiments of the presentinvention, the memory component 16 comprises a model database comprisingthe generated one or more combined solution data models.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, the plurality of users 4 may access theresource entity application 17, or other applications, through the assetsystems 21. The asset systems 21 may be a desktop, mobile device (e.g.,laptop, smartphone device, PDA, tablet, or other mobile device), or anyother type of computer that generally comprises one or morecommunication components 22, one or more processing components 24, andone or more memory components 26. In some embodiments, the asset systems21 may be servers. In some embodiments, the asset systems 21 may becloud servers. In some embodiments, the asset systems may berepositories and/or the like.

The one or more processing components 24 are operatively coupled to theone or more communication components 22 and the one or more memorycomponents 26. The one or more processing components 24 use the one ormore communication components 22 to communicate with the network 3 andother components on the network 3, such as, but not limited to, theresource entity systems 10, the authentication systems 20, the HRsystems 40, the asset management systems 30, and/or other systems. Assuch, the one or more communication components 22 generally comprise awireless transceiver, modem, server, electrical connection, or othercomponent for communicating with other components on the network 3. Theone or more communication components 22 may further include an interfacethat accepts one or more network interface cards, ports for connectionof network components, Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors and thelike. Moreover, the one or more communication components 22 may includea keypad, keyboard, touch-screen, touchpad, microphone, mouse, joystick,other pointer component, button, soft key, and/or other input/outputcomponent(s) for communicating with the users 4.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, the asset systems 21 may havecomputer-readable instructions 28 stored in the one or more memorycomponents 26, which in one embodiment includes the computer-readableinstructions 28 for user applications 27, such as authenticationapplication (e.g., apps, applet, or the like), other resource entityapplications, a web browser or other apps that allow the plurality ofusers 4 to take various actions, including allowing the plurality ofusers 4 to access applications located on other systems, or the like.The one or more memory components 26 comprise one or more data stores 29to store data accessed by the asset systems 21 or data required toperform one or more processes or operations assigned to the assetsystems 21. In some embodiments, the plurality of users utilizes theuser applications 27, through the asset systems 21, to access theresource entity applications 17 to perform various day to dayorganizational processes. In some embodiments, plurality of users 4 mayutilize a HR application to store human resources information in the HRsystems 40. In some embodiments, the plurality of users 4 may utilizeasset management application to add information about new asset systems,delete information associated with old asset systems, modify location ofthe existing asset systems, and/or the like.

FIG. 2 presents a block diagram 200 illustrating authenticationinformation present in one or more authentication systems 20. The one ormore authentication systems 20 are any systems which controlauthorizations and authentications within the resource entity. The oneor more authentication systems comprise authentication information andauthorization information associated with one or more asset systems 21,plurality of users 4, one or more applications, and/or the like.Typically one or more asset systems 21 (such asset system 1 210, assetsystem 2 220, and asset system N 230) within an entity communicate witheach other to implement multiple processes. For the one or more assetsystems 21 to communicate with each other, authentication is necessary.For example, asset system 1 210 may access asset system 2 220 only aftersuccessful authentication. The one or more authentication systems 20facilitate authentication between asset system 1 210 and asset system 2220, wherein the authentication between asset system 1 210 and assetsystem 2 220 may be unidirectional or bidirectional. In someembodiments, the one or more authentication systems 20 may receive arequest from asset system 1 210 to access asset system 2 220. Uponreceiving the request, the one or more authentication systems 20 accessa data store comprising approved authorizations within the resourceentity, determine that the asset system 1 210 has authorization toaccess asset system 2 220, and authorize asset system 1 210 to accessasset system 2 220. Approval for authorizations may be provided by auser of the plurality of users. Similarly, the one or moreauthentication systems provide authentication between plurality of users4 and the one or more asset systems 21. For example, a user of theplurality of users 4 may send a request to the one or moreauthentication systems to access any one of the asset systems 21. Theplurality of users 4 may belong to one or more organizational groups(organizational group 1 240, organizational group 2 250, operationalgroup N 260). Organizational group may be defined as a group withmultiple users belonging to a line of business. In one example, a groupof users associated with human resources department are associated withhuman resources organizational group. In some embodiments, theauthorizations to asset systems may be based on the organizationalgroups of the plurality of users. For example, ‘n’ number of usersassociated with organization group 1 240 may have authorization toaccess asset system 1 210. In some embodiments, the one or moreauthorization systems 20 may facilitate access between one or moreapplications within a resource entity. In some embodiments, the one ormore authorization systems 20 may facilitate access between one or moreapplications within the entity and the plurality of users 4. In someembodiments, the one or more authorization systems 20 may facilitateaccess between one or more applications within the entity and the one ormore asset systems 21.

FIG. 3 presents a block diagram 300 illustrating asset informationpresent in one or more asset management systems 30. The one or moreasset management systems 30 are any systems which manage and control oneor more asset systems 21 within the resource entity. The one or moreasset management systems 30 comprise information associated with the oneor more asset systems 21 and the one or more applications within theresource entity. The one or more applications may be any softwareapplications owned, maintained or utilized by the resource entity. Insome embodiments, the one or more asset management systems 30 compriseinformation associated with asset type 310, environment 320, logicalasset 340, application 350, and location 360 of the one or more assetsystems 21. Asset type 310 defines the type of the one or more assetsystems 21. For example, the one or more asset management systems 30comprise information associated with the type of asset system 1 210shown in FIG. 2, wherein the asset system 1 210 may be a repository. Theone or more assets systems 21 may be repositories, relationshipmanagement systems, transaction systems, knowledge management systems,business intelligence systems, user systems assigned to the plurality ofusers 4, and/or the like. In one embodiment, the one or more assetmanagement systems 30 comprise information associated with environment320 of the one or more asset systems 21. Environment 320 may defineoperating system properties, physical properties, software properties,and/or the like of the one or more asset systems 21. In one embodiment,the one or more asset management systems 30 comprise informationassociated with location 360 of the one or more asset systems 21. Forexample, the one or more asset management systems 30 comprise physicaladdress including country, state, city, street address, building number,floor number, cubicle location, and/or the like associated with thelocation of the asset system 1 210. In one embodiment, the one or moreasset management systems 30 comprise information with logical assets 340associated with the one or more asset systems 21. Logical assetinformation 340 may include logical partitions, virtual assets, and/orthe like associated with each of the one or more asset systems 21. Forexample, asset system 1 210 may be configured into one or more virtualassets which may be utilized by any of the plurality of users 4 from anynetwork associated with the resource entity. In one embodiment, the oneor more asset management systems 30 comprise information withapplications 360 associated with the one or more asset systems 21.

FIG. 4 presents a block diagram 400 illustrating presents a blockdiagram illustrating human resources information present in one or morehuman resources systems 40. The one or more human resources systems 40may be any systems utilized by the human resources organization groupwithin the resource entity. The one or more human resources systemscomprise information associated with the plurality of users 4 within theresource entity. In one embodiment, the one or more human resourcessystems 40 comprise information associated with organization 410 of theplurality of users 4. The plurality of users 4 may be agents,contractors, sub-contractors, third-party representatives, and/or thelike. Contractors, sub-contractors, third party representatives, may beassociated with third party entities. For example, the one or more humanresources systems may comprise organization information 410 associatedwith a first user of the plurality of users 4. The first user may beassociated with a first third party entity, wherein the third partyentity provides one or more contractors to the resource entity. In oneembodiment, the one or more human resources systems 40 may compriseinformation associated with hierarchy information 420 associated withthe plurality of users 4. For example, the one or more human resourcessystems 40 may comprise hierarchy information 420 associated with eachof the plurality of users 4 such as one or more users reporting to afirst user of the plurality of users 4, a reporting manager associatedwith the first user, one or more applications managed by the first user,and/or the like. In one embodiment, the one or more human resourcessystems 40 may comprise information associated with location 440 of eachof the plurality of users 4. For example, the one or more humanresources systems 40 comprise location information 440 associated with afirst user of the plurality of users 4 such as work location addressincluding country, state, city, street address, building number, floornumber, cubicle location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the oneor more human resources systems 40 comprise all work locationsassociated with each of the plurality of users including the home workaddress, country, state, city, street address, building number, floornumber, cubicle location, IP address, and/or the like.

FIG. 5 presents a block diagram 500 illustrating a combined solutiondata model generated by the artificial intelligence engine of theresource entity system 10. The resource entity system 10 extractsauthentication information 200 from the one or more authenticationsystems 20, asset information 300 from the one or more asset managementsystems 30, human resources information 400 from the one or more humanresources systems 40, and/or the like. The artificial intelligenceengine intelligently applies logic to the extracted information from oneor more systems and formulates a combined solution data model comprisingone or more relationships between one or more assets systems 21, theplurality of users 4, and one or more logical assets and applicationswithin the resource entity. In some embodiments, the combined solutiondata model may be stored in the form of database tables. The combinedsolution data models may be stored in any of available operationaldatabases, relational databases, distribute databases, key valuedatabases, column oriented databases, cloud database, big data, mobiledatabase, active database, parallel database, virtual database,centralized database, navigational database, and/or the like. In someother embodiments, the combined solution data model may be stored in adata store in the form of tree data structure. In some embodiments, thecombined solution data model may be split into multiple trees and eachof the multiple trees may be linked with other multiples trees based onthe one or more relationships. In some embodiment, the combined solutiondata model is in the form of a web. In some embodiments, the combinedsolution data model may be stored in the form of a list. In someembodiments, the combined solution data model may be stored in the formof any available data structures used to representing the one or morerelationships. In some other embodiments, the combined solution datamodels may be stored in any graphical form in the data store of thesystem. In some embodiments, the combined solution data models is anintegrated semantic model. In some embodiments, the combined solutiondata models is a schema model.

FIG. 6 presents a process flow 600 illustrating generation of combinedsolution data model by the artificial intelligence engine of theresource entity system 10. As shown in block 610, the system accessesone or more authentication systems, wherein the one or moreauthentication systems comprise authentication information associatedwith the one or more asset systems and the plurality of users 4. Theauthentication information may be stored in a data store of theauthentication system and the system may access the data store of theone or more authentication system. In some embodiments, the one or moreauthentication systems may authorize the system to access theauthentication information stored in the data store of the one or moreauthentication systems. As shown in block 620, the system extracts theauthentication information associated with the one or more asset systemsand the plurality of users. In some embodiments, the extractedinformation may include only active authentications present in the datastore. Active authentications may be any authentication used by theplurality of users or the one or more asset systems or the one or moreapplications or logical assets associated with the resource entitywithin a predetermined amount of time. In some embodiments, thepredetermined amount of time may be assigned by the resource entity. Forexample, the system may assign twelve months are the predeterminedamount of time. In some embodiments, the system may perform routinemaintenance on the one or more authentication systems 20 at regularintervals and delete all inactive forms of authentication present in theone or more authentication systems, thereby having the information readyfor extraction during the process of generation of the combined solutiondata models. In such embodiments, the system may delete the inactiveauthentications only after receiving an approval from a relevant user.The relevant user may be associated with a first asset system or a firstuser associated with the inactive authentication. For example, theinactive authentication may be associated with a user who is notassociated with the resource entity. The system may identify a reportingmanager assigned to the user and may send the reporting manager arequest for approval to delete the inactive authentication. In someembodiments, the authentication information may include referenceidentifiers associated with the plurality of users 4, the one or moreasset systems 21, the one or more applications or logical assets, and/orthe like. In some embodiments, the authentication information mayinclude historical data logs comprising all authentications approved bythe one or more authentication systems.

As shown in block 630, the system accesses the one or more humanresources systems, wherein the one or more human resources systemscomprise human resources information associated with the plurality ofusers. Human resources information may be inputted into the one or morehuman resources systems 40 by one or more plurality of users associatedwith human resources organizational group. The human resourcesinformation may include location information, hierarchy information,organization information, personal information, and/or the like. Asshown in block 640, the system extracts the human resources informationassociated with the plurality of users. The system upon extracting thehuman resources information may sort the human resources information andstore it in the data store of the system based on the human resourcesidentifier, thereby providing easy retrieval of human resourcesinformation during the process of generation of combined solution datamodels.

As shown in block 650, the system accesses the one or more assetmanagement systems, wherein the one or more asset management systemcomprises asset information associated with at least the type andlocation of the one or more asset systems. The asset information mayalso include environment information, logical asset information,application information, and/or the like associated with the one or moreasset systems 21. The asset information may include informationassociated with whether the one or more asset systems 21 or one or moreapplications associated with the one or more asset systems 21 includeconfidential data or not. As shown in block 660, the system extractsasset information associated with the one or more asset systems. Thesystem, after extracting the asset information, may sort the assetinformation and may store it in the data store of the system based onasset reference identifier, thereby providing easy retrieval of assetinformation during the process of generation of combined solution datamodels.

As shown in block 670, the system identifies a first set ofrelationships between each of the one or more asset systems based on theextracted authentication information. The first set of relationships mayinclude all forms of active authentication records present in theextracted authentication information between each of the one or moreasset systems based on the historical data log information extractedfrom the one or more authentication systems. For example, the system mayidentify all entries in the historical data log information associatedwith a first asset reference identifier. In some embodiments, thesystem, after identifying the first set of relationships, may place thefirst set of relationships in temporary storage of the system such asrandom access memory for easy retrieval. In such embodiments, the systemmay identify duplicate relationships from the first set of relationshipsand may delete the duplicate relationships before storing the first setof relationships in the data store. For example, the system may identifyall entries in the historical log information associated with a firstreference identifier and a second reference identifier. When a firstasset system associated with the first reference identifier and a secondasset system associated with the second reference identifier communicatewith each other, after identifying the entries associated with the firstasset system and the second asset system, the system deletes duplicaterecords. In some embodiments, the system, after identifying the firstset of relationships, may place the first set of relationships in bothtemporary storage and permanent storage of the system. Additionally, insome embodiments, the system may also identify relationships betweenmultiple applications based on the extracted authentication information.For example, an application ‘A’ associated with asset system 1 may beaccessing an application ‘B’ in asset system 2 and the system identifiesthe relationship between application ‘A’ and application ‘B’ based onhistorical data log information and may place this information in thetemporary storage for easy retrieval.

As shown in block 680, the system identifies a second set ofrelationships between each of the one or more asset systems and each ofthe plurality of users based on the extracted authenticationinformation. The second set of relationships may include all forms ofactive authentication present in the extracted authenticationinformation between each of the one or more asset systems and each ofthe plurality of users based on the historical data log informationextracted from the one or more authentication systems. For example, thesystem may identify all entries in the historical data log informationassociated with a first human resources identifier. In some embodiments,the system after identifying the second set of relationships, may placethe second set of relationships in the temporary storage of the systemsuch as random access memory for easy retrieval. In such embodiments,the system may identify duplicate relationships from the second set ofrelationships and may delete the duplicate relationships before storingthe second set of relationships in the data store.

As shown in block 690, the system formulates the one or more solutiondata models based on the first set of relationships, the second set ofrelationships, asset information, and the human resources information.For example, for a relationship between the first asset system and thesecond asset system, the system identifies and links the assetinformation associated with the first asset reference identifier and thesecond asset reference identifier with the relationship. In anotherexample, for a second relationship between the first asset system and afirst user, the system identifies and links asset information associatedwith the first asset reference identifier and human resourcesinformation associated with the first human resources identifier withthe relationship. The system combines all relationships and generatescombined solution data models, wherein the combined solution data modelsshow one or more users associated with each of the asset systems, one ormore asset systems connected with the each of the asset systems, one ormore applications and logical assets associated with each of the assetsystems. The combined data solution models also show lineage within anentity. In some embodiments, the system may generate one single unifieddata solution model. In some other embodiments, the system may generatemultiple data solution models and link them with identifiers to form acombined solution data model.

FIG. 7 presents a process flow 700 for identifying one or more unmanageddevices within a network, in accordance with embodiments of the presentinvention. As shown in block 710, the system receives an input from auser to identify unmanaged asset systems/devices or unmanagedapplications in a network. The network may be associated with onegeographic location, one building in a geographic location, or the like.The input provided by the user further comprises network parameters forwhich the search for unmanaged devices needs to be performed. In someembodiments, the system may automatically initiate the process ofidentifying unmanaged devices in the network at regular intervals. Insuch an embodiment, regular intervals may be defined by the user.

As shown in block 720, the system accesses a solution data modelassociated with the network from the model database. The one or morecombined solution data models may be a unified model with informationassociated with all networks within the entity. The networks may berelated to multiple geographical areas associated with the entity. Basedon the network parameters provided by the user, the system accesses thesolution data models associated with the network parameters. In otherwords, the system filters out part of the combined solution data modelswhich is not associated with the network parameters specified by theuser and accesses only the other part of the combined solution datamodel.

As shown in block 730, the system identifies the unmanaged devices inthe network based on the solution data model. The system identifies theunmanaged devices based on the one or more relationships in the solutiondata model by determining for each of the one or more asset systems inthe network, if any of the plurality of users which were previouslyusing each of the one or more asset systems are no longer working forthe entity. This information is available in the one or more combinedsolution data models based on the extracted human resources informationand the second set of relationships as discussed in block 640 and block680. In some embodiments, the system also identifies unmanagedapplications using the same process described herein.

As shown in block 740, the system displays information associated withthe unmanaged devices to the user. The system displays the informationassociated with the unmanaged devices to the user who submitted theinput in block 710 and all other concerned users. For example, thesystem displays for a first unmanaged device identified by the system,all other asset systems, applications, and users associated with thefirst unmanaged device. After displaying the information associated withthe unmanaged devices, the user may submit one or more mitigation stepsto the system for mitigating exposures associated with the unmanagedassets. Exposures may include consumption and misuse of confidentialinformation or the like. The one or more mitigation steps may includedisconnecting the unmanaged devices from the network or the like.

As shown in block 750, the system automatically identifies one or moremitigation steps to mitigate exposures associated with the unmanageddevices. In one embodiment, the system identifies the one or moremitigation steps based on identifying whether the unmanaged devices havelatest security patches or not. In a case where the unmanaged devices donot have the latest security patches, the system identifies the one ormore mitigations steps as installing the latest security patches on theunmanaged devices automatically. In another embodiment, the systemidentifies the one or more mitigation steps based on identifying whetherthe unmanaged devices have access to confidential data feeds. Theinformation associated with whether the unmanaged devices have access toconfidential data feeds is present in the solution data model associatedwith the identified unmanaged devices. In a case where the unmanageddevices have access to the confidential data feeds, the systemidentifies the one or more mitigation steps as disconnecting access tothe confidential data feeds. In another embodiment, the system mayidentify the mitigation step as disconnecting the unmanaged devices fromthe network. In such an embodiment, the system may move tasks oroperations linked with the unmanaged devices to a different assetsystem/device before disconnecting the unmanaged device. In such anembodiment, the system may disconnect the unmanaged devices from thenetwork only after receiving an approval from a user. As shown in block760, the system automatically implements the one or more mitigationsteps to mitigate the exposures associated with the unmanaged devices.

Although many embodiments of the present invention have just beendescribed above, the present invention may be embodied in many differentforms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments setforth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that thisdisclosure will satisfy applicable legal requirements. Also, it will beunderstood that, where possible, any of the advantages, features,functions, devices, and/or operational aspects of any of the embodimentsof the present invention described and/or contemplated herein may beincluded in any of the other embodiments of the present inventiondescribed and/or contemplated herein, and/or vice versa. In addition,where possible, any terms expressed in the singular form herein aremeant to also include the plural form and/or vice versa, unlessexplicitly stated otherwise. Accordingly, the terms “a” and/or “an”shall mean “one or more,” even though the phrase “one or more” is alsoused herein. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.

As will be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art in view ofthis disclosure, the present invention may include and/or be embodied asan apparatus (including, for example, a system, machine, device,computer program product, and/or the like), as a method (including, forexample, a business method, computer-implemented process, and/or thelike), or as any combination of the foregoing. Accordingly, embodimentsof the present invention may take the form of an entirely businessmethod embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware,resident software, micro-code, stored procedures in a database, or thelike), an entirely hardware embodiment, or an embodiment combiningbusiness method, software, and hardware aspects that may generally bereferred to herein as a “system.” Furthermore, embodiments of thepresent invention may take the form of a computer program product thatincludes a computer-readable storage medium having one or morecomputer-executable program code portions stored therein. As usedherein, a processor, which may include one or more processors, may be“configured to” perform a certain function in a variety of ways,including, for example, by having one or more general-purpose circuitsperform the function by executing one or more computer-executableprogram code portions embodied in a computer-readable medium, and/or byhaving one or more application-specific circuits perform the function.

It will be understood that any suitable computer-readable medium may beutilized. The computer-readable medium may include, but is not limitedto, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, such as a tangibleelectronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, and/orsemiconductor system, device, and/or other apparatus. For example, insome embodiments, the non-transitory computer-readable medium includes atangible medium such as a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, arandom access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasableprogrammable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a compact discread-only memory (CD-ROM), and/or some other tangible optical and/ormagnetic storage device. In other embodiments of the present invention,however, the computer-readable medium may be transitory, such as, forexample, a propagation signal including computer-executable program codeportions embodied therein. In some embodiments, memory may includevolatile memory, such as volatile random access memory (RAM) having acache area for the temporary storage of information. Memory may alsoinclude non-volatile memory, which may be embedded and/or may beremovable. The non-volatile memory may additionally or alternativelyinclude an EEPROM, flash memory, and/or the like. The memory may storeany one or more of pieces of information and data used by the system inwhich it resides to implement the functions of that system.

One or more computer-executable program code portions for carrying outoperations of the present invention may include object-oriented,scripted, and/or unscripted programming languages, such as, for example,Java, Perl, Smalltalk, C++, SAS, SQL, Python, Objective C, JavaScript,and/or the like. In some embodiments, the one or morecomputer-executable program code portions for carrying out operations ofembodiments of the present invention are written in conventionalprocedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming languagesand/or similar programming languages. The computer program code mayalternatively or additionally be written in one or more multi-paradigmprogramming languages, such as, for example, F#.

Some embodiments of the present invention are described herein withreference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of apparatusand/or methods. It will be understood that each block included in theflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and/or combinations ofblocks included in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams,may be implemented by one or more computer-executable program codeportions. These one or more computer-executable program code portionsmay be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, specialpurpose computer, and/or some other programmable data processingapparatus in order to produce a particular machine, such that the one ormore computer-executable program code portions, which execute via theprocessor of the computer and/or other programmable data processingapparatus, create mechanisms for implementing the steps and/or functionsrepresented by the flowchart(s) and/or block diagram block(s).

The one or more computer-executable program code portions may be storedin a transitory and/or non-transitory computer-readable medium (e.g., amemory or the like) that can direct, instruct, and/or cause a computerand/or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in aparticular manner, such that the computer-executable program codeportions stored in the computer-readable medium produce an article ofmanufacture including instruction mechanisms which implement the stepsand/or functions specified in the flowchart(s) and/or block diagramblock(s).

The one or more computer-executable program code portions may also beloaded onto a computer and/or other programmable data processingapparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on thecomputer and/or other programmable apparatus. In some embodiments, thisproduces a computer-implemented process such that the one or morecomputer-executable program code portions which execute on the computerand/or other programmable apparatus provide operational steps toimplement the steps specified in the flowchart(s) and/or the functionsspecified in the block diagram block(s). Alternatively,computer-implemented steps may be combined with, and/or replaced with,operator- and/or human-implemented steps in order to carry out anembodiment of the present invention.

While certain exemplary embodiments have been described and shown in theaccompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments aremerely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad invention, andthat this invention not be limited to the specific constructions andarrangements shown and described, since various other changes,combinations, omissions, modifications and substitutions, in addition tothose set forth in the above paragraphs, are possible. Those skilled inthe art will appreciate that various adaptations, modifications, andcombinations of the just described embodiments can be configured withoutdeparting from the scope and spirit of the invention. Therefore, it isto be understood that, within the scope of the appended claims, theinvention may be practiced other than as specifically described herein.

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

To supplement the present disclosure, this application furtherincorporates entirely by reference the following commonly assignedpatent applications:

U.S. patent application Docket Number Ser. No. Title Filed On8015US1.014033.3109 15/814,028 SYSTEM FOR TECHNOLOGY Nov. 15, ANOMALYDETECTION, TRIAGE 2017 AND RESPONSE USING SOLUTION DATA MODELING8016US1.014033.3110 15/814,038 IMPLEMENTING A CONTINUITY Nov. 15, PLANGENERATED USING 2017 SOLUTION DATA MODELING BASED ON PREDICTED FUTUREEVENT SIMULATION TESTING 8017US1.014033.3111 15/814,044 SYSTEM FORREROUTING Nov. 15, ELECTRONIC DATA 2017 TRANSMISSIONS BASED ON GENERATEDSOLUTION DATA MODELS 8371US1.014033.3198 To be assigned SYSTEM FORMITIGATING Concurrently EXPOSURE ASSOCIATED WITH herewith IDENTIFIEDIMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM CHANGES BASED ON SOLUTION DATA MODELLING8373US1.014033.3200 To be assigned SYSTEM FOR MITIGATING ConcurrentlyINTENTIONAL AND herewith UNINTENTIONAL EXPOSURES USING SOLUTION DATAMODELLING 8374US1.014033.3201 To be assigned SYSTEM FOR DECOMMISSIONINGConcurrently INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY herewith ASSETS USING SOLUTION DATAMODELLING

What is claimed is:
 1. A system for mitigating exposures associated withidentified unmanaged devices in a network, the system comprising: one ormore memory devices having computer readable code stored thereon;wherein the one or more memory devices comprises a plurality ofdatabases comprising a model database and an incident database; one ormore processing devices operatively coupled to the one or more memorydevices, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured toexecute the computer readable code to: generate one or more solutiondata models comprising a plurality of asset systems and a plurality ofusers, wherein each of the plurality of asset systems is associated withat least one user of the plurality of users and wherein at least a firstof the plurality of asset systems is associated with at least a secondof the plurality of asset systems; store the one or more solution datamodels in the model database; receive an input from a user to identifyunmanaged devices in a network; access a first solution data modelassociated with the network from the model database; identify theunmanaged devices in the network based on the first solution data model;and display information associated with the unmanaged devices to theuser.
 2. The system of claim 1, wherein generating the one or moresolution data models comprises: accessing one or more authenticationsystems, wherein the one or more authentication systems compriseauthentication information associated with the plurality of assetsystems and the plurality of users; extracting the authenticationinformation associated with the plurality of asset systems and theplurality of users; accessing one or more human resources systems,wherein the one or more human resources systems comprise human resourcesinformation associated with the plurality of users; extracting the humanresources information associated with the plurality of users; accessingone or more asset management systems, wherein the one or more assetmanagement systems comprise asset information associated with at leasttype and location of the plurality of asset systems; extracting theasset information associated with plurality of asset systems;identifying a first set of relationships between each of the pluralityof asset systems based on the extracted authentication information;identifying a second set of relationships between each of the pluralityof users and each of the plurality of asset systems based on theextracted authentication information; and formulating the one or moresolution data models based on the first set of relationships, the secondset of relationships, the asset information, and the human resourcesinformation.
 3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or moreprocessing devices are configured to execute the computer readable codeto identify the unmanaged devices in the network based on one or morerelationships in the first solution data model.
 4. The system of claim1, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to executethe computer readable code to automatically mitigate exposuresassociated with the unmanaged devices.
 5. The system of claim 4, whereinautomatically mitigating the exposures associated with the unmanageddevices comprises: determining that the unmanaged devices do not havelatest security patches; and automatically installing the latestsecurity patches on the unmanaged devices.
 6. The system of claim 4,wherein automatically mitigating the exposures associated with theunmanaged devices comprises: identifying that the unmanaged devices haveaccess to confidential data feeds; and disconnecting access to theconfidential data feeds.
 7. The system of claim 4, wherein automaticallymitigating the exposures associated with the unmanaged devices comprisesdisconnecting the unmanaged devices from the network.
 8. A computerprogram product for mitigating exposures associated with identifiedunmanaged devices in a network, the computer program product comprisingat least one non-transitory computer-readable medium havingcomputer-readable program code portions embodied therein, thecomputer-readable program code portions comprises one or more executableportions for: generating one or more solution data models comprising aplurality of asset systems and a plurality of users, wherein each of theplurality of asset systems is associated with at least one user of theplurality of users and wherein at least a first of the plurality ofasset systems is associated with at least a second of the plurality ofasset systems; storing the one or more solution data models in a modeldatabase; receiving an input from a user to identify unmanaged devicesin a network; accessing a first solution data model associated with thenetwork from the model database; identifying the unmanaged devices inthe network based on the first solution data model; and displayinginformation associated with the unmanaged devices to the user.
 9. Thecomputer implemented method of claim 8, wherein generating the one ormore solution data models comprises: accessing one or moreauthentication systems, wherein the one or more authentication systemscomprise authentication information associated with the plurality ofasset systems and the plurality of users; extracting the authenticationinformation associated with the plurality of asset systems and theplurality of users; accessing one or more human resources systems,wherein the one or more human resources systems comprise human resourcesinformation associated with the plurality of users; extracting the humanresources information associated with the plurality of users; accessingone or more asset management systems, wherein the one or more assetmanagement systems comprise asset information associated with at leasttype and location of the plurality of asset systems; extracting theasset information associated with plurality of asset systems;identifying a first set of relationships between each of the pluralityof asset systems based on the extracted authentication information;identifying a second set of relationships between each of the pluralityof users and each of the plurality of asset systems based on theextracted authentication information; and formulating the one or moresolution data models based on the first set of relationships, the secondset of relationships, the asset information, and the human resourcesinformation.
 10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein thecomputer-readable program code portions comprises one or more executableportions for identifying the unmanaged devices in the network based onone or more relationships in the first solution data model.
 11. Thecomputer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer-readableprogram code portions comprises one or more executable portions forautomatically mitigating exposures associated with the unmanageddevices.
 12. The computer program product of claim 11, whereinautomatically mitigating the exposures associated with the unmanageddevices comprises: determining that the unmanaged devices do not havelatest security patches; and automatically installing the latestsecurity patches on the unmanaged devices.
 13. The computer programproduct of claim 11, wherein automatically mitigating the exposuresassociated with the unmanaged devices comprises: identifying that theunmanaged devices have access to confidential data feeds; anddisconnecting access to the confidential data feeds.
 14. The computerprogram product of claim 11, wherein automatically mitigating theexposures associated with the unmanaged devices comprises disconnectingthe unmanaged devices from the network.
 15. A computer implementedmethod for mitigating exposures associated with identified unmanageddevices in a network, the method comprising: generating one or moresolution data models comprising a plurality of asset systems and aplurality of users, wherein each of the plurality of asset systems isassociated with at least one user of the plurality of users and whereinat least a first of the plurality of asset systems is associated with atleast a second of the plurality of asset systems; storing the one ormore solution data models in a model database; receiving an input from auser to identify unmanaged devices in a network; accessing a firstsolution data model associated with the network from the model database;identifying the unmanaged devices in the network based on the firstsolution data model; and displaying information associated with theunmanaged devices to the user.
 16. The computer implemented method ofclaim 15, wherein generating the one or more solution data modelscomprises: accessing one or more authentication systems, wherein the oneor more authentication systems comprise authentication informationassociated with the plurality of asset systems and the plurality ofusers; extracting the authentication information associated with theplurality of asset systems and the plurality of users; accessing one ormore human resources systems, wherein the one or more human resourcessystems comprise human resources information associated with theplurality of users; extracting the human resources informationassociated with the plurality of users; accessing one or more assetmanagement systems, wherein the one or more asset management systemscomprise asset information associated with at least type and location ofthe plurality of asset systems; extracting the asset informationassociated with plurality of asset systems; identifying a first set ofrelationships between each of the plurality of asset systems based onthe extracted authentication information; identifying a second set ofrelationships between each of the plurality of users and each of theplurality of asset systems based on the extracted authenticationinformation; and formulating the one or more solution data models basedon the first set of relationships, the second set of relationships, theasset information, and the human resources information.
 17. The computerimplemented method of claim 15, wherein the method further comprisesidentifying the unmanaged devices in the network based on one or morerelationships in the first solution data model.
 18. The computerimplemented method of claim 15, wherein the one or more processingdevices are configured to execute the computer readable code toautomatically mitigate exposures associated with the unmanaged devices.19. The computer implemented method of claim 18, wherein automaticallymitigating the exposures associated with the unmanaged devicescomprises: determining that the unmanaged devices do not have latestsecurity patches; and automatically installing the latest securitypatches on the unmanaged devices.
 20. The computer implemented method ofclaim 18, wherein automatically mitigating the exposures associated withthe unmanaged devices comprises: identifying that the unmanaged deviceshave access to confidential data feeds; and disconnecting access to theconfidential data feeds.